Timoleon Jimenez

Timoleon "Timochenko" Jimenez (22 January 1959-) was the commander-in-chief of FARC during the Colombian conflict.

Biography
Rodrigo Londono Echeverri was born in Calarca, Quindio, Colombia on 22 January 1959, and he joined the youth wing of the Colombian Communist Party after graduating from secondary school. Echeverri studied at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union, and he received military training in Yugoslavia before completing his studies in Cuba. He acquired the nom de guerre of "Timoleon Jimenez", and he was nicknamed "Timochenko" after Red Army general Semyon Timoshenko. He fought alongside the FARC guerrillas for 30 years, entering the general secretariat in the early 1990s. Jimenez was based around the border with Venezuela, and he was rumored to be involved with drug cartels, taxing the illegal drug trade to raise funds for FARC and ordering for cartels to kidnap US citizens, shoot down fumigation aircraft, increase cocaine production, and kill any farmer who sold cocaine paste to non-FARC approved buyers. From 2011 to 2017, he served as commander-in-chief of FARC, and he oversaw the guerrilla organization's transition into a legitimate political party.